The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-03

shall have its full share of the business. by fair
means, If possible; if not, he will resort to rate
cutting, both deep and in earnest
1t is said that coaches of roads were
handled the Union Depot Saturday last
than in any day in the history of the depot
Coaches belonging to the Boston q Albany, the
Lake Shore, the New York Central. the Penn
sylvania road proper, the n. Y, p 81 o.. the
N. Y. G. e. St L., the Hooking Valley, the Chi
cago q Atlantic were among the mum Der. These
coaches run through for the veterans at ST.
Louis, and Friday and Saturday were coming
back.
The fact that the railroads striving for
business at half rates. or even less, to the utter
disregard of tariff sheets. suggests that tho way
to give these tariffs value and permanence is to
reduce the regular rates 20 a level more nearly
approximating the figures at which the railroads
are striving to get business 1t Is suggested
that il the roads would make two cents per mile
their passenger rate in all directions and any
distance, the results might be more satisfactory
to them and the public well.
The c.. FL. e I. train which on Saturday
brought the Duckworth Club up from Cincinnati,
although delayed by the engine of an east-bound
train breaking down, made1a run which will do
to go on record as hard to beat, engine No
from Liberty to the Union Depot, Indianapolis,
in eighty-two minutes, stopping at two railroad
crossings and once to take water, which reduces
the actual running time down to about mile q
minute the entire distance outside the city
limits.
The lumber men are complaining of the diff
Guilty to get to handle their business
promptly. Doubtless there is no class of bust
ness men that suffers more than the buyers and
sellers of lumber from anything that happens to
create a scarcity of railway cars Their bust
is such that it must be done. it done at all
by rail. most of il is, in carload lots and un-
like many other large shippers, they can do
nothing in the way of filing their orders until
the cars which to carry the lumber are "set
in" on their own side tracks.
In quiet manner a general movement IS
making to do away with large per cent of
work on railroads on the Sabbath. A number
of roads have expressed desire to take firm
stand IN this matter if competing lines will
favor such a movement The Bee-line eighteen
months ago issued an order to the effect that as
little work should be done possible on the
Sabbath especially in yards and it has an ex-
cellent effect their mon and their business
has suffered thereby. General manager
Beckley, the Cincinnati, Wabash Il Michigan,
docs allow a wheel to turn that road on
Sunday and when the Ives Staynor syndicate
proposed take control of the road he distinctly
gave them to understand that should he con-
tinue general manager of the property the
Sabbath must be observed. The Weekly Tele
grapher says From straws which have
been able to flying about in the air, ana
from a positive knowledge we have OF the right
and public favor of the proposition, we believe
that Sunday labor will soon be reegated to the
The running of Sunday trains, we be-
lieve in ordinary cases, is a useless expense and
injustice to employees, that Is fast being
found out and abandoned.